ROTHERWEIRD / WYNTERTIDE / LOST ACRE ANDREW ( 3 VOLUMES EACH SIGNED AND LIMITED)

CALDECOTT, Andrew (Il By Sasha Laika)

ISBN 10: 1784297615 / ISBN 13: 9781784297619

Published by Jo Fletcher Books ( Quercus), In Association With Goldsboro Books,, London,, 2017

About this Item

First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jackets. 8vo. pp 459, 476, 477. 2017, 2018, 2019 Promotional bookmarks laid into first two volumes. First edition (complete number lines), three volume hardcover set of the Goldsboro editions published in 2017/2018/2019. Each is signed on the title page by Caldecott with its limitation number (100/500; 133/250; 203/250) on the title page. Original publisher's blue, red and yellow cloth with edges stained in respective colours. Quote by Hilary Mantel on covers of first two volumes - '.a book with special and dangerous properties.' Fine in fine dust jackets. No iother nscriptions, not price-clipped.

Seller Inventory # C101309

Bibliographic Details

• Title: ROTHERWEIRD / WYNTERTIDE / LOST ACRE ANDREW ( 3 VOLUMES EACH SIGNED AND LIMITED)
• Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books ( Quercus), In Association With Goldsboro Books,, London,
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784297615
• ISBN 13: 9781784297619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Laika, Sasha
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signedes

About this title

Synopsis

'Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties' Hilary Mantel

The town of Rotherweird stands alone - there are no guidebooks, despite the fascinating and diverse architectural styles cramming the narrow streets, the avant garde science and offbeat customs. Cast adrift from the rest of England by Elizabeth I, Rotherweird's independence is subject to one disturbing condition: nobody, but nobody, studies the town or its history.

For beneath the enchanting surface lurks a secret so dark that it must never be rediscovered, still less reused.

But secrets have a way of leaking out.

Two inquisitive outsiders have arrived: Jonah Oblong, to teach modern history at Rotherweird School (nothing local and nothing before 1800), and the sinister billionaire Sir Veronal Slickstone, who has somehow got permission to renovate the town's long-derelict Manor House.

Slickstone and Oblong, though driven by conflicting motives, both strive to connect past and present, until they and their allies are drawn into a race against time - and each other. The consequences will be lethal and apocalyptic.

Welcome to Rotherweird!

A twisted, arcane murder-mystery with shades of Hope Mirrlees, Ben Aaronovitch, Mervyn Peake and Edward Gorey at their disturbing best.

'Baroque, Byzantine and beautiful - not to mention bold' M.R. Carey

'Compelling . . . the love child of Gormenghast and Hogwarts' Guardian

About the Authors

Andrew Caldecott is a QC specialising in media law; he has represented a wide variety of clients, from the BBC and the Guardian to supermodel Naomi Campbell. An occasional playwright, he turned his hand to fiction when, informed by his love of history, which he studied at New College, Oxford, he was seized by the notion of a city-state hiding a cataclysmic secret. Wyntertide continues the story started in Rotherweird.

Sasha Laika studied figurative art in Moscow, followed by a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration in the UK. A London-based artist for the last 10 years, Sasha creates highly intricate works that draw on imagery from mythology, folklore and religious iconography. Her works are inhabited by mystical creatures that morph between human and animal, and exist in transition somewhere between the worlds of fantasy and reality. She considers Rotherweird the perfect subject for her début work as a book illustrator.